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_aLivingston, Berkeley, _d1909-1975 |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aDeath of a B.E.M. |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2010 |
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_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats |
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| 490 | 1 | _aProduced from Amazing Stories October 1948. | |
| 500 | _aRelease date is 2010-06-07 | ||
| 508 | _aProduced by Greg Weeks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net | ||
| 520 | _a"Death of a B.E.M." by Berkeley Livingston is a satirical science fiction story written in the late 1940s. The narrative explores the humorous interactions between human creators—an artist and a writer—and the fictional bug-eyed monsters (B.E.M.s) they are forced to depict in their works. The topic revolves around the imagination of the writers and how it shapes the portrayal of creatures in science fiction while also highlighting the absurdity of the glorified monster trope. The story essentially unfolds in two realms: the mundane world of the writer and artist struggling to create engaging content and the chaotic planet XYZ268PDQ, home to the B.E.M.s. The chief B.E.M., Hiah-Leugh, and his companions discuss their frustrations with being relegated to the role of stereotypical monsters in fiction. In an ironic twist, these monsters decide to capture human artists to finally portray them authentically, leading to a comical series of events where the humans experience a mock torture party. Ultimately, the narrative satirizes the clichés of the genre while cleverly questioning the reader's perception of monsters, revealing that they are merely the product of human imagination. As the story concludes, the writer's epiphany inspires him to create more nuanced and multi-dimensional characters in his future works. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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| 653 | _aScience fiction | ||
| 653 | _aShort stories | ||
| 653 | _aAuthors -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aMonsters -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aArtists -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aImagination -- Fiction | ||
| 830 | 0 | _aProduced from Amazing Stories October 1948. | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32726 |
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